Yoshio Sakamoto

Early LifeBorn in 1959 in Nara Prefecture, Japan, Sakamoto attended the Osaka University of the Arts. As a child he played with Nintendo toys, products he thought were both inventive and "strange".

Nintendo (1982 - Present)Game & Watch + ArcadeIn 1982, Sakamoto was hired as an artist by Nintendo, primarily with the task of creating promotional artwork for various games. Soon after, he was moved into R&D1, where he began working under Gunpei Yokoi and Makoto Kanoh for Game & Watch development. His first game was the Game & Watch version of Donkey Kong where he designed the barrels and cranes that the player had to maneuver around. Later that year, Yokoi ordered Sakamoto to come up with a game about Snoopy and Sakamoto solely designed Snoopy for the Game & Watch Panoramic model.

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Game & Wario is a party mini-game collection developed and published by Nintendo exclusively for the Wii U. The game offers sixteen mini-games, consisting of twelve single-player titles and four multiplayer-only titles for up to five players. The game exclusively uses the Wii U GamePad, with no need for additional Wii Remotes.